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OHS Board of Directors: Is it for me?
The Board of Directors is the governance body of the Ottawa Humane Society (OHS). On behalf of the community, and representing the members of the OHS, the Board provides the strategic direction, resources, and high-level oversight for the organization to be successful in achieving its mission and goals.
Who serves on the OHS Board?
Board members come from all walks of life. They share a commitment to the OHS and the animals in our care and community and have skills that are required by the Board. Ideally but not exclusively, candidates are sought with Board and/or volunteer experience at charitable/not-for-profit organizations, and with expertise in some of the following areas: governance; management/strategic planning; evaluation/performance management; fundraising; government; finance/accounting; legal or regulatory; human resources/recruitment & retention; privacy/security; information technology and/or communications.
The Ottawa Humane Society values diversity. We encourage candidates to self-identify, if they wish, as visible minorities, newcomers to Canada, indigenous peoples or persons with disabilities, for example.
Education: Formal education is not a requirement for all Board positions, though it is desirable to have certain professionals on the Board to ensure an appropriate mix of perspectives at the table. Many candidates may possess a combination of work and personal experience that provides them with the necessary knowledge and understanding of the financial, administrative, ethical and policy issues that may be discussed at the Board.
Knowledge/Awareness: Candidates should possess an interest in animal welfare and should understand the need to demonstrate a public image that is in keeping with the philosophies and goals of the OHS.
Personal Suitability: It is desirable to have Board members who are willing and have confidence to challenge proposed policies, activities, etc., of the organization. The ability to challenge must be tempered with recognition of the need to work in a cooperative and collegial manner and demonstrate a style that values consensus and unity.
Financial Commitment: All Board members are expected to make a meaningful personal financial commitment to the OHS.
The Board of Directors usually meets once every Quarter for a full-day meeting on a Saturday, at the OHS. Reports, background materials, and other documentation are sent to Board members several days before the meeting, and Board members are expected to have read the materials and have their questions and comments prepared.
consecutive two-year terms (totalling six (6) years).
Select the President and CEO. The Board must reach consensus on the President and CEO's responsibilities and undertake a careful search to find the most qualified individual for the position. The Board will ensure that there is a succession plan in place.
Support and evaluate the President and CEO. The Board should ensure that the President and CEO has the support he/she needs to further the goals of the organization.
Monitor and strengthen programs and services. The Board's responsibility is to determine which programs are consistent with OHS's mission and monitor their effectiveness.
Ensure adequate financial resources. One of the Board's foremost responsibilities is to secure adequate resources for the OHS to fulfill its mission.
Enhance the OHS's public standing. The Board should clearly articulate the OHS's mission, accomplishments, and goals to the public and garner support from the community.
Since discussions may involve confidential or sensitive issues, Board members are asked to sign a Confidentiality Agreement and an agreement to adhere to the OHS Ethics Policy.
Board members are expected to attend most, if not all, major OHS events.
In addition to the quarterly meetings and periodic events, Board members are expected to serve on at least one committee that typically meets once a month and when there, are usually assigned specific tasks to be completed individually or working in collaboration with other committee members.
What are the Board committees?
Much of the up-front, hands-on work that occurs prior to any issue coming to the Board, is done through the work of Board committees. The committees take the time to research issues, identify and evaluate options, and make recommendations. The Board depends on committees to present succinct information and recommendations upon which it can base decisions at its monthly meetings.
The Executive Committee is comprised of the officers of the OHS: the Chair, 1st Vice-Chair, Treasurer, Secretary and a member-at-large from the Board, in addition to the President and CEO. Its duties and responsibilities are set out in the bylaws, but essentially this committee provides more detailed oversight of the OHS operations. The Executive Committee is open to Board members elected to executive positions only.
The Finance & Audit Committee also has duties that are set out in the bylaws. In addition to its regular duties, however, the Finance & Audit Committee may also take on other projects such as establishing policies and procedures about important financial matters.
The Nominating Committee recruits and screens potential new Board members. Under the bylaws, the Nominating Committee is composed of at least three Board members and may also include Advisors from outside the Board. As Board vacancies occur, the Board's Nominating Committee will advertise for applicants.
The Governance Committee's duties are set out in the bylaws. The Governance Committee develops sound governance policies, procedures and techniques in order to pursue the development of the governance of the OHS.
The Board is authorized under the OHS bylaws to establish other committees depending on its priorities for the OHS.
In addition, if you are not already a member of the OHS, candidates shall become a member of the Ottawa Humane Society upon acceptance of your application by the Board of Directors.
HOW DO I BECOME AN OHS BOARD MEMBER?
Download and complete an application package.
Submit completed application form and resumé to Manager: Volunteers by deadline.
If selected for an interview, the chair of the Nominating Committee will arrange your interview with that committee.
Be available and attend your scheduled interview (being held in the evening on April 23 to 25, 2019).
The selected candidate will be asked to join the Board in the Fall of 2019. The Nominating Committee will present all candidates as part of the slate for the Board at the OHS Annual General Meeting on September 17, 2019 for approval by the membership.
You will be asked to participate in an orientation session to the OHS and your responsibilities as a Board member, along with other new Board members, will be reviewed.
You must pass a police check.
Being associated with an organization that has been helping your community since 1888.


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Patrick Brown's Camelot needs to serve the people of Brampton
"What it came down to was a search not for the most talent, the greatest brilliance, but for the fewest black marks, the fewest objections."
—David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest
In 1972, the late David Halberstam, a Pulitzer Prize winning writer who had left the New York Times, penned The Best and the Brightest, a book that elevated his stature to the top of American journalism. It was a chilling account of how a young president, John F. Kennedy, pieced together his new administration by hiring some of the most highly regarded "whiz kids" on the planet. Each hire seemed starrier than the last, and the glitteriest of all was Robert McNamara, the San Francisco native who graduated UC Berkeley, Harvard Business School, and was named president of the struggling Ford Motor Company before shifting gears and taking his modern-day management control systems from Motor City to the American capital. When Kennedy named him Secretary of Defence, the White House was oozing with all the infinite possibilities that intelligence, wisdom and sophistication summoned to the cabinet table. All his new hires would pass the purity test. Or so it was thought.
When JFK was assassinated in Dallas in 1963, not quite halfway into the two-decade war in Vietnam, his successor Lyndon Johnson, elevated McNamara to the top rung, and together they upped the ante in Indochina, plunging the U.S. into a hopeless and ever-expanding conflict. With every strategic failure, militarily in the theatre of war and diplomatically on the international stage, the world around them spun out of control. Long-serving state department officials were ignored, and decision-making was consolidated among a handful in McNamara and Johnson's inner circle. Halberstam's book dutifully records the carnage, and McNamara's Macbeth moment when he realizes his folly and tries wiping the blood from his hands.
There have been too many books to count written about Kennedy and the so-called Camelot he created on the banks of the Potomac. A common theme is America's complex relationship with a man considered by many as one of the country's greatest leaders.
President Kennedy: Profile of Power by Richard Reeves, published in 1994 is a historian's account of the young leader's disturbingly flawed time in office, while the Dark Side of Camelot is a more scathing investigation that came out three years later, written by reporter Seymour Hersh.
Both are filled with historical facts unearthed after Kennedy's assassination and Hersh's work includes numerous sources who, according to the author, fill in even more of the secrets about the constant lying, serial extra-marital sexual trysts with young women and backroom political deal-making to maintain power and create unofficial policy outside the public eye. All of it was enabled by a loyal inner circle the president assembled to insulate him and do much of the work to carry out his administration's mandate.
Kennedy lived in a different time, when it was still possible to hide from the public anything they might find disqualifying. Freedom of Information laws did not exist and powerful men, especially the most powerful of them all, often enjoyed a close relationship with the decision makers who controlled the mainstream press.
Among the journalists Kennedy seduced was Ben Bradlee, the former executive editor of the Washington Post, an old friend from their Harvard days whom the president kept close by his side.
When much of the truth about the president began to emerge, the country was conflicted. The circumstance of his death had elevated his legacy. But his place in history became harder to pin down. He was steely, yet charismatic. He lacked the wisdom to understand why the Bay of Pigs invasion planned by his predecessors, to overthrow Cuba's Fidel Castro, was doomed on many levels, but he skillfully steered his country away from a nuclear confrontation with the former Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He saw women as little more than sexual objects and mother figures, yet he was a warrior on civil rights, who became a hero to millions of African Americans. His handsome features withered in the light of truth about heavy-handed moves to maintain power and clandestine plots hatched to pursue a rogue foreign policy.
Kennedy was deeply flawed, but effective. And he was the leader his country needed at a crucial time in its history.
Which brings us to Brampton and its Mayor, Patrick Brown. He now leads the country's ninth largest city, as it too faces a crucial time in its history.
He promised during his inauguration address in the days after his surprise October 2018 election win over Linda Jeffrey, to create a Team Brampton approach to governing. This was to be an all-for-one commitment, an esprit de corps.
The main criticism of Jeffrey was her failure to open up the mayor's office to the public while she ruled city hall. She failed to adapt from her former role as provincial cabinet minister, a dictator moving chess pieces for her (and her party's) interests.
Brampton desperately needed an inspiring local leader to bring the city and all its divided constituencies together.
Brown was an accomplished former MPP and MP (who, at the age of 22, won municipal office in Barrie) and eventually became leader of the PC Party of Ontario. A lawyer with little training, Brown was driven by a burning ambition to govern, and his appeal to Brampton voters was the deployment of his considerable skills – a non-stop work ethic and willingness to negotiate from the middle – to pull this city out from the muck of two failed regimes that had preceded him.
He possesses many of the personal attributes successful elected officials dispatch in their public life: energy, vitality and an intense dedication to his stated goals. He is also glaringly ambitious and, as he himself revealed in a memoir published after his dramatic "Takedown" from the Ontario PC Party leadership in 2018, he is impetuous and somewhat naïve (see his relationship with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, whose oppressive autocratic rule is finally drawing international outrage).
In Brown's inaugural address a little more than a year ago, he spent some extra time introducing his new look council and lauded each one for the unique qualities they would bring to city hall. The through lines of his four-year mandate would be job creation, inclusivity, economic development, and turning the City's 2040 Vision from wishful thinking into a full-blooded plan for smart growth, something Brampton so desperately needs.
Yes, the council and city staff would better reflect the city they serve, which was almost 75 percent visible minorities. And Brown admitted there was plenty of work to do: only 37 percent of the city's workforce was non-white, while, despite wide turn-over in recent years, 85 percent of its corporate leadership team did not reflect the range of visible minority groups in this incredibly diverse municipality.
Brown said he felt freed from the partisan politicking based on party loyalty. My political party is Brampton, he told his adoring audience.
If he couldn't control the hiring of one group (council), he could impact the other (staff) because after all, he was the city's top boss.
Brown was devastated by the betrayal of senior staffers while leader of the Ontario PCs, even those who parachuted in from the outside, only to hasten his demise from party politics. It has obviously marked him deeply.
But his reaction, to take advantage of circumstances that almost guarantee loyalty, which some leaders, like Donald Trump, view in a dangerously one-sided way, could threaten the operations and integrity of city hall. Questions continue to mount about the people being placed around Brown.
It didn't take the swashbuckling mayor long to unsheathe his sword and race across the battlefield. First to feel the steel tip was Harry Schlange, the CAO, and a noted Jeffrey hire from Niagara Region, brought in as an agent of change. Schlange had shown the door to dozens of senior executives and managers from the disastrous Susan Fennell era, when city hall was effectively run as her personal propaganda factory, funded by unwitting taxpayers and developers who donated millions to make billions.
Schlange lasted a grand total of 10 days in the Brown regime. A couple of months into 2019, five members of the city's senior management team were also abruptly ousted. This bloodletting followed a pattern that began in 2015 when Jeffrey hired former Ontario auditor general Jim McCarter for a deep dive into the finances at city hall, detailing the staggering amounts being paid in the non-union ranks of middle and upper management. John Corbett was jettisoned as CAO by Jeffrey, and Schlange was welcomed in. He quickly lopped off about two-dozen senior executives from the employment list, then more followed.
Schlange's tenure was short, and highlighted the fact that since 2007, the city had employed six CAOs, including a handful who warmed the seat while permanent hires were found. The turmoil and lack of continuity and experience saw people handling major roles they were ill-equipped for, like transit and other growth-related files. The revolving door of acting CAOs and senior executives has been turning inside city hall for half a decade.
And then, earlier this year, council finally took steps to recruit a new CAO to replace Schlange, nine months after he was fired.
Did the city want a star, a visionary, someone who could decipher the council-approved 2040 Vision and turn it into an action plan? Would the ninth largest city in Canada bring in a leader with broad experience, familiarity and success in managing complex management teams and a staff of thousands; a person who could work comfortably within the city's complex demographic and economic landscape; someone who had ethically and transparently overseen a publicly-funded budget to the tune of hundreds of millions of dollars?
Or was it enough to hire someone to simply keep the troops in line while the actual decision makers, mayor and council, and a select few key senior staffers, continued to work away at turning Brampton into a world class city?
Many concluded that the hiring of a highly skilled, professional and a-political CAO with an ability to bridge divides between staff and council, would be the most important one in the city's history.
In October, David Barrick won the job, again pulled from Niagara region. He followed the hiring of another Niagara recruit, Jason Tamming, named director of strategic communications, the same role he held there for the regional government. The obvious question is why Niagara seems to be Brampton's minor league affiliate, a place where apparatchiks are seasoned before they get a chance to perform in the big leagues, including in the ninth largest city in Canada. It's unclear why, with its completely incongruent demographics, mostly rural make-up and an economic picture nothing like Brampton's, Niagara has become the key recruiting base for a city it has very little in common with.
Which begs a second question – even a third or fourth. Did our city get the best and the brightest candidates available? Do these two men represent the inclusivity that Brown preached about in his inaugural speech? The Barrick and Tamming hires seem quixotic at best, and at worst, badly wrong-footed.
David Barrick, left, Brampton's new CAO and Jason Tamming, head of communications
Then, before the holidays, The Pointer reported a story that detailed Barrick's and Tamming's controversial histories and the scandalous events that preceded their departure from their previous jobs.
After their involvement in a rigged 2016 hiring process to get Barrick's former boss the region's top job – a man who would then promote Tamming after his help in the sordid affair – both would fail badly in their roles before leaving Niagara, only to be hired by one of the largest cities in the country. In Barrick's case, to oversee the entire municipal operation here.
He has zero experience leading a municipality, having briefly headed Niagara's conservation authority after working for his boss, the agency's former head who got the "Inside Job" as the regional CAO. A recently released Ontario Ombudsman's report points out how Barrick (without actually naming him) lobbied the Niagara treasurer at the time to help get senior staff to champion Barrick's boss as the man for the region's top job. In return, according to a private email obtained and published by the St. Catharines Standard, Barrick promised the treasurer that in exchange for his efforts he would get influence with the man who was destined to become Niagara's CAO, thanks to the "inside job" Barrick and Tamming helped orchestrate.
All this happened before a provincial auditor's report last year raised concern that Barrick's original hiring there, under the man who would eventually become Niagara's CAO, was not properly handled. Barrick was making almost $150,000 as a manager for the agency when he was fired from that role. But with the conservation authority mired in dysfunction, he was eventually rehired during the chaotic period to take over its leadership after his former boss had successfully won the predetermined competition for Niagara Region's CAO post.
Barrick's only experience running any operation was short lived, when during his three months on the job he drew the scorn of regional councillors for questionable hiring and lavish expenses before completely botching the conservation authority's budget. In a mutual agreement, he left shortly after.
Tamming's conduct, laid bare in the November Ontario Ombudsman's investigation report, with the aforementioned title, "Inside Job", which details the fraudulent hiring process for Niagara's former CAO, is even more disqualifying. He gave the man who would become his boss the answers to questions candidates were asked during the hiring process. With the fix in, and answers in hand, he was given the CAO Job. The Region's new boss quickly promoted Tamming to head the communications department. When everything unravelled Tamming was fired. He is now responsible for all information coming out of city hall here.
After his deceptive, alarmingly unprofessional conduct in helping carry out a rigged hiring process in Niagara, which led to his own promotion, we are supposed to accept that Tamming's hiring in Brampton was above board and that he can be trusted to control all information flow in and out of city hall.
Both of the hires have numerous ties to Brown through Conservative circles and the mayor chaired the committee that selected Barrick. Brown says he didn't know them and didn't help get their jobs. Obviously, in Barrick's case, he did. He chaired the entire process that led to the hiring of the new CAO, a man with a checkered past and zero experience in such a role, who will now make at least a quarter of a million dollars, before calculating all the benefits and other perks of the job.
Councillor Jeff Bowman, who was also on the committee, says he was given no information about Barrick's past by the private search firm that was hired by the city to help scour the country to find the best person to lead Brampton's entire municipal operation. The firm did not answer questions about why the committee was given no information about Barrick's past, even though his conduct in Niagara has been extensively reported by the media, and despite the existence of two red flags raised by different provincial agencies shortly before Barrick's hiring.
They both will now work closely with Brown and his staff. The mayor has his men. Both were found after the help of the same executive search firm. Both came from Niagara. And both have direct ties to Conservative circles.
Brown told The Pointer he was unaware of the dark clouds swirling around the two new executives, even though they date back to 2016. He took to social media over the holiday season, as concern mounted, to ensure that Barrick is not part of an Ontario Provincial Police investigation currently being carried out after Niagara Council read the Ombudsman's investigation report and voted unanimously to send it for a criminal probe. It's unclear how Brown would know that Barrick is not part of a police investigation, which the OPP was handed right before the holiday season began. It's also unclear if Tamming, a central player in the fraudulent Niagara hiring scheme, will be a key figure in the OPP investigation.
Brown also stated, in the same social media defence of Barrick, that he was not named in the Ombudsman's report. This is misleading, as media reports have made clear that the person detailed in the report for trying to lobby the Niagara treasurer at the time of the fraudulent CAO hiring process, was Barrick. Instead of doing what a responsible and measured leader should, Brown did not stay clear of the controversy by ensuring that if there is legitimate reason to disqualify Barrick from his new CAO job, Council will get to the bottom of it. Nope, he chose instead to rally behind his guy. Move on. Nothing to see here. He has shown his hand. Barrick is his man. And Brown isn't concerned about the possible damage to Brampton or making sure the hiring process was fair. He has another loyal soldier in place and Barrick surely knows what he owes Brown for salvaging his almost ruined career.
Here's another twist, almost Orwellian. When The Pointer asked the City's communications team about Tamming, their boss, they declined to answer. When we asked about Barrick, their boss's boss, and theirs too, they again declined to answer. Brown wasn't much help, either. He offered curt, one-word answers that didn't address many of the questions, and said one of our requests, asking whether he believes in transparency was, "ridiculous." Not half as much as making these two very questionable hires.
Remember, after Brown stepped down as PC leader in 2018, while the party was facing mounting anger over riding nominations that many alleged had been secretly controlled by him, a devastating email was leaked to the media.
Brown had emailed specific instructions to two senior party officials, including Rick Dykstra, then PC president, right before the nomination meeting to select a candidate in Hamilton West-Ancaster-Dundas.
"Let them all fight it out. And get me the result I want. But no disqualifications here. Kitchen is too hot," Brown said in his email to the two men.
Brown denied any wrongdoing and said he supported a fair and transparent nomination process. Hamilton police investigated the matter and determined that while the PC nomination process in the riding clearly included irregularities, they did not have enough evidence to pursue charges. Brown maintained his innocence throughout.
Just like the American public in the early '60s, the fact is most people will excuse political transgressions as long as the good of the people is ultimately served.
The problem is that while many support Brown and want to see him succeed for his adopted city, with people like Barrick and Tamming working for the good of the taxpayers, the early returns give rise to concern.
Brown needs to prove that such hirings and his constant messaging about all the great things being done, actually have clear benefits. We need to know that Brampton and the hardworking residents of this city are winning under their new leader and his team.
And we need to see a leader, circled by his loyal soldiers, deploy more than cheap slogans and a constant barrage of empty social media messages cheerleading his every movement.
He creates questions about his sincerity and legitimacy as a moral leader when he takes an easy stand against Quebec's discriminatory Bill 21, which he has little history with and no obvious personal tie to; but in the face of deeply disturbing actions in India, which he brags about visiting 19 times largely because its Prime Minister supposedly considers Brown a brother, the mayor's lack of a stance against Modi's stunning authoritarian move to challenge the citizenship of Muslim residents while the country is being described as a "living nightmare" for its 200 million citizens whose community has lived an Islamic life for centuries, is troubling.
Patrick Brown with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi
In a city with Brampton's demographics, where the mayor sends out a torrent of social media messages touting the latest ceremonial act of harmonious respect for its diverse communities, he seems like the perfect leader to take a stand against his so-called brother. Or, would calling Modi what he is, a hateful thug, be too big a political risk for Brown, who has carved out an increasingly strategic relationship with people who could play prominently in his future ambitions?
As for Barrick, if his handling of the latest flag-waving stunt out of city hall is any indication, he clearly lacks the experience and wisdom to guide people like Brown away from terrible decisions.
The sudden announcement of plans for a Brampton University came with no staff reporting on the requirements. The public has no idea what the province's position is, despite its control over the entire post-secondary landscape in Ontario. There is no indication that existing partners Ryerson, Algoma and Sheridan were properly consulted and gave their approval for the half-baked plan. And not a word has been mentioned about any of the funding that will be required and whether the city is in a position to contribute its share.
But Brown doesn't operate this way. He was all-in on the publicity stunt, and while the marketing material seemed somewhat professional, inspiring hope that maybe this is a serious effort, where was Barrick's guidance? For all that money he's making, the CAO never thought to say, wait! Let's contact the ministry first. Then let's engage Ryerson and Algoma to make sure any plan will fit with their sizeable investment commitments to post-secondary education in the city. And let's get a complete financial picture before we start blasting out talking-head YouTube videos to the world.
Brown shot from the hip and his new lieutenant watched as the bullet headed for his foot.
As for Tamming, if a recent memo from his communications staff to The Pointer is any indication, he's being paid well into the six figures to learn on the job. The laughable note was likely an effort by the new head of strategic communications, the former federal Conservative junior staffer under the Stephen Harper government (he served the party in Ottawa while Brown was a Conservative MP there). The note carried on the party tradition, deployed by Liberals and Conservatives and apparently seared into Tamming, of telling the media what the rules of journalism are: if you don't spin our message, we will make life difficult for you.
Tamming's former boss in Niagara, Alan Caslin, was closely tied to Rick Dykstra, the former Conservative MP who served as Ontario PC party president and Brown's right-hand man during his failed bid for the premiership.
When Tamming served as Caslin's communications head, a letter was crafted for the ownership of the local newspaper. The St. Catharines Standard, which had been doggedly reporting on disturbing issues such as the confiscation of a reporter's material from regional council chambers, was really bothering Barrick, a regional councillor at the time, Caslin (Tamming's boss at the time) and Dykstra, a local Conservative MP at the time. The paper was owned, then, by Postmedia, a company widely viewed as right of centre. Barrick, Dykstra and Caslin all signed a letter to the head of Postmedia asking for changes at the Standard and describing it as "anti-Conservative".
Will the man now running city hall in Brampton take the same stance toward the media? Will the man now running the communications department for city hall follow the hardline approach of his former boss in Niagara, when dealing with members of the press who try to get at the truth on behalf of taxpayers?
Brown said he "has been nothing but impressed with their work ethic and professionalism at the City of Brampton," referring to Tamming and Barrick. The latter has barely been on the job, but already complied with the ham-fisted public relations campaign for the city's own university. The move might have sent the city's post-secondary efforts backward.
Barrick is now preparing the 2020 budget, and all eyes will be watching to see if he makes responsible and fully transparent cuts to achieve the reductions Brown so desperately wants. The CAO made a mockery of the one Niagara conservation authority budget he oversaw, then departed the job shortly after. His behaviour was so questionable during his few months on the job as head of the conservation agency, that the provincial privacy watchdog ordered the release of documents detailing questionable hiring under Barrick's watch as well as details of salary bumps and car allowances he handed out as if he was king of the land. The $1,000-a-month for automobile expenses is unheard of even for the most senior bureaucrats in Ottawa, but Barrick felt, during his few months in control of the taxpayer-funded budget for a small conservation agency, that it was appropriate for staffers he had just promoted.
Ontario's Information Privacy Commissioner, in its October ruling, ordering the release of the documents which the conservation authority did not want to disclose, described the Niagara conservation authority as being "plagued with what can only be described as a management crisis." The ruling ordering the disclosure went on to state that, "the turmoil at the NPCA is of an epic proportion."
Now, the man involved in the rigged hiring process condemned by the Ontario Ombudsman; the same man whose initial hiring by the Niagara conservation authority was recently questioned by the province's auditor general; the man who was eventually fired from his management role there before being rehired to head the same agency described by the privacy commissioner as being in a "turmoil" of "epic proportion"; a man with no work experience in finance or business management, who got his foot in municipal bureaucracy as the former Port Colborne regional councillor, born and raised in the community of 18,000 residents; will deliver an incredibly challenging budget that is the blueprint for spending hundreds of millions of dollars contributed by taxpayers in one of Canada's biggest cities.
Hollywood couldn't make this stuff up.
But Brown wants us to give him and his inner circle a chance.
Magically, Barrick is now Brampton's CAO, plucked from his smelly pile by a committee made up of our councillors and led by the mayor. Despite the hiring of an executive search firm, which presumably was expected to conduct an exhaustive screening process, the committee was apparently given no information about the auditor general's finding that Barrick's original hiring by the Niagara conservation authority was questionable; no information about the privacy commissioner's ruling after concerns that Barrick was treating the conservation authority's taxpayer-funded budget like his own personal piggy bank; and no information about Barrick's behind the scenes role in the "Inside Job" that got his former boss the cushy Niagara Region CAO position.
Few of the Brampton councillors are willing to comment on the process or the issues raised in the Ontario Ombudsman's report. Councillor Charmaine Williams said she has "grave concerns" and would be raising the report with the mayor and council. Bowman was much more courageous than his peers, voicing the same concern The Pointer has heard from more than 50 members of the public, and he suggests that residents take those concerns to the provincial Ombudsman, if they fear something sinister is going on here.
Brown, meanwhile, continues to land people around him who seem to fit his need for loyalty.
In August, a three-member committee which included Brown, hired Muneeza Sheikh, a Toronto labour lawyer, as the city's new integrity commissioner, despite having no previous experience as an integrity commissioner and no apparent experience in municipal law. Afterward, it was learned that Sheikh, who often appears on political panels in the media, had previously expressed public political support for Brown when he was forced to step down as Ontario PC leader. It was also revealed that her husband's company had been paid for work by the Ontario PC party while Brown was its leader.
Brown at an event with Muneeza Sheikh in 2016 before he named her Brampton's new Integrity Commissioner
One has to be naïve to think political leaders like Brown don't insulate themselves with people they feel they can trust. The question for Brampton is whether it's all being done just to protect his political career; or, if along with such loyalty, there is also an expectation by the mayor that these people protect Brampton and its taxpayers.
2020 is a common term for good vision. It also represents the new year, a seminal one in the history of Brampton.
Everything will come into sharper focus as this city tries to overcome a dark swarm of problems that plague it. But things promise to get much blurrier if the City's hiring process has been politicized.
Brown deserves a chance. The recent hiring under his watch is obviously being orchestrated by him. He might have to get burned before realizing loyal soldiers aren't much good if they can't do the job.
History has proven kind to JFK, despite all his flaws and those of the men in his inner circle, some of whom led their country down a dark path after Kennedy was gone. Ultimately, in his short time as president, many of his key decisions were the right ones for his nation, even with some of the wrong people standing behind him.
For Patrick Brown, as 2020 begins, his team will be put to the test immediately. The integrity and wisdom of these men and women are not just a signal of his strength as a leader, they are crucial for the good governance of a city desperately trying to find its way.

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The Process Group is a fortnightly commitment for an individual to come together and work within a group context of no more than 8 persons for 2 hours on your own individual process. Group work has two main levels.
One works with and elevates the energy level, while the other increases consciousness. Groups give the opportunity to see how we affect others, to experiment with new behaviour, and to get feedback on our behaviour.
One of the great aspects of the group is to normalise our experiences. We find out that others share parts of ourselves that we have feared and felt shamed around. The group at some stage represents the 'family of origin' system for each member, which can trigger infantile feelings towards each other and to the leader.
support of the group and personal improvement.
The process group is based on Integrative Body Mind Psychotherapy™ and involves a combination of movement, expression, sharing, and emotional release. There are physical exercises to open muscular blocks that limit consciousness, feeling and life force. Each attendee will not always do an individual process every night, but will be expected to support others. Often it is when we are supporting others, that we gain our biggest insights into our own process. In the secure environment of a Process Group, old patterns of negativity that limit consciousness are challenged, enabling you to live an authentic life of fulfilment, meaning and connection.
Since our issues can originate from difficulties in our personal relationships, the process group offers an opportunity to provide connection with others and examine the issues at a deep level. Process Groups are driven by group need and group dynamics which assist and accelerate individual process but do not replace it. As the group matures and becomes cohesive, there is an increase in morale, mutual trust, and revealing of thoughts and feelings. The main tasks of Process Group Therapy are self-disclosure, honesty about feelings, non-defensiveness, interest in and acceptance of others, support of the group and personal improvement.
Most ongoing process groups meet fortnightly for a couple of hours. Prior experience in individual therapy is highly recommended but not compulsory. Most group members would benefit from having individual sessions with their therapist at least monthly. You are financially responsible for any missed groups.
To join a group, you will need to make contact with the group leader. If you have not met them before, you will need an interview to assess eligibility. In some instances there is a waiting period to come into a group. Initially, you will need to commit to attending a set number of consecutive group sessions. While you are settling into the group you will have a chance to bring any feelings or concerns that are elicited from the group, back to the group.
The group spends the first 30 minutes becoming grounded in present time via various body awareness exercises and energy charging and discharging movements. The group must be grounded to create a safe container for the individual therapy pieces. The next 2 hours is spent checking in with attendees, working voluntarily on individual process, working at the dyad, triad and group level where appropriate. There is actual processing, some reflective work, discussion and psycho-education.
The sessions start at 6.30pm on a Wednesday, and finish at 9pm. Attendance is $75 each session and non-attendance is still paid for.
The group meets for a 3 month period and then ceases before reforming as a new group again 4 to 8 weeks later. Enrolment must be confirmed and is not automatically rolled over from one group to the next.
Our Process Groups take place primarily in Perth, Western Australia WA. Please contact us if you require additional information about Process Groups taking place soon.


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funny but haven't you realized that during reunions we seem to remember only the good old days and not the bad memories...maybe it's our mind's way of telling us to shut off the traumatic moments..right?
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We chat with software engineer Elecia White about embedded programming, self-driving cars, and why internet appliances must connect to the web more quickly and easily if they are to find commercial success.
Carmen is looking forward to burning images of Darth Vader or Fry from Futurama into his morning slice of toast.
Rather than looking at pre-programmed images when he butters up his toast each day, Jeff envisions reading the day's weather forecast, or reviewing the best route to work.
Despite a multitude of promises that the Internet of Things will improve our lives, there seem to be a lot of technical and social details that have yet to be sorted out.
We continue to look for listeners willing to share their engineering stories with us. Please use the Contact page to let us know of your interest!
Our guest for this episode is software engineer Elecia White, co-founder of Logical Elegance, an embedded systems consulting company based in San Jose, California.
We determine Brian was the only co-host to play Command and Conquer, as he seems to be the only person knowledgeable about the proper use of engineers in that video game.
Although not taught as frequently in engineering universities as it once was, the Fortran programming language is still widely used for numerical analysis.
There are a variety of definitions for an embedded system. Our guest notes that an embedded system needs software (thus requiring it to include a programmable computer), but is not itself a general-purpose computing device.
Brian asks about the relative importance of being familiar with more general concepts and protocols, such as I2C and SPI, versus understanding vendor specific commands and methods.
Sam Feller's analog clock is mentioned by Carmen as an example of a hardware product requiring a great deal of engineering effort.
Embedded system programmers usually come from either a computer science or electrical engineering background.
While many employers want to hire "full-stack" developers that can handle all types of programming needs, our guest points out that it is virtually impossible to be equally proficient in all areas of programming.
Elecia recently served as a judge for the 2014 Hack-a-Day Prize.
A least one internet toaster actually exists, as it reportedly attempts to find a new home if you don't use it frequently enough.
It is also possible to remotely determine how many eggs are in your refrigerator.
As explained in an xkcd comic, many of our existing problems can be cured be developing yet another standard.
An Electric Imp developer was interviewed last summer in Episode 202 of The Amp Hour podcast.
In a previous job, our guest worked for ShotSpotter, a company that produces a gunfire detection system.
Elecia discussed various aspects of interviewing in Episode 51 of her podcast, Embedded.fm.
The EggBot from Evil Mad Scientist is mentioned as potentially providing inspiration for a new type of toaster.
Our guest can be found on Twitter as @logicalelegance, and can be reached via the contact page on her Embedded.fm website.
Thanks to Windell Oskay for use of the image titled "hello, world." Podcast theme music by Paul Stevenson.


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The Forum Shops represents one of the most elaborate, detailed themed properties in the country. The 304,000 square foot, Phase 3 Expansion is complementary to the existing Caesars Palace motif – architectural elements of ancient Rome dating between 300 B.C. and 300 A.D.
The exterior is based off the Italian Palazzo, and like the original, it has Corinthian columns, balustrades, entablatures and cornices. Also featured is a scale replica of the Italian Trevi Fountain and Gian Lorenzo Bernini's Triton Fountain. A dramatic 130-foot wide by 100-foot high grand entrance invites foot traffic from Las Vegas Boulevard into the three-level shopping experience.
The exterior façade consists of structural steel framing, structural stud framing and exterior sheathing with a synthetic exterior plaster finish. The façade undulates in and out along the exterior, sometimes as much as 6-feet at a time. Because of the size and complexity of the façade, it required its own structural steel frame, which is built around and attaches to the Forum Shops shell structure, also designed by Lochsa Engineering.


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The Conference Board's Leading Economic Index for the U.S. dipped by 0.1 percent in December.
* The Conference Board's Leading Economic Index for December decreased by 0.1 percent.
* Initial Claims for Unemployment Insurance fell by 13,000 for the week ending Jan. 19, to hit 199,000.
The Conference Board's Leading Economic Index for the U.S. dipped by 0.1 percent in December. There are two important things to say about the December LEI. First, it is not unusual for the leading index to dip briefly into negative territory and then bounce back without the U.S. economy falling into recession. However, being down two out of the last three months focuses our attention. Secondly, due to the partial federal government shutdown, two out of ten components of the leading index were not available for December. The Conference Board developed its own forecast of manufacturers' new orders for consumer goods and materials and developed its own forecast for building permits. So, we must give the December Leading Economic Index an asterisk and say that it is subject to a potentially larger than normal revision. According to the Conference Board, six out of ten subcomponents of the leading index were positive in December. They were, beginning with the largest positive contributors, initial claims for unemployment insurance, the Leading Credit Index, interest rate spread, consumer expectations for business conditions, manufacturers' new orders for nondefense capital goods excluding aircraft and manufacturers' new orders for consumer goods and materials. The negative components were stock prices, the ISM New Orders Index and building permits. Average weekly manufacturing hours were unchanged in December. The Coincident Index was positive for the eleventh month in a row, gaining 0.2 percent in December. The Lagging Index was positive for the third consecutive month, increasing by 0.5 percent in December.
Initial claims for unemployment insurance fell by 13,000 for the week ending January 19, to hit 199,000. This is the lowest level of initial claims since November 1969. The upward trend in initial claims visible from mid-September through early December 2018 appears to have reversed. Continuing claims for unemployment benefits fell by 24,000 for the week ending January 12, to hit 1,713,000. Federal workers who are not receiving paychecks are eligible for unemployment benefits, so we expect that category of UI claims to increase through January. However, federal workers who are still working but are not getting paid are not eligible for UI benefits. Initial claims filed by federal government workers increased by 14,965 for the week ending January 12. Continuing claims data shows that 24,681 former federal employees were claiming UI benefits through January 5, up 11,183 from the previous week.
We can see in today's U.S. economic data that the federal government shutdown is muddying up both the government generated data and the private sector data. Fortunately, there is some redundancy in economic data and much of the private sector data is still unaffected. Our view into the current condition of the U.S. economy is imperfect at best, now it is getting murkier.
Market Reaction: U.S. equity markets have reversed opening losses. The 10-year Treasury bond yield is down to 2.72 percent. NYMEX crude oil is up to $52.73/barrel. Natural gas futures are up to $3.01/mmbtu.


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With the end of the semester nearing and final exams underway, Andrea Bee of the Gryph Reads Committee feels that some chillout time is in order, and as such has compiled a collection of Chill Reads for library visitors.
The goal of the collection is to encourage patrons to pick up page-turner titles that are leisurely, funny, and invoke light-hearted themes which allow readers to kick back and simply enjoy. After all, as the temperatures drop and the days grow shorter, we could all use a little bit of warmth and lightness, which are what this collection intends to offer.
Titles in the Chill Reads collection can be found on the library's first floor display atop the Gryph Reads shelves, or virtually on library's featured collections page as Chill Reads 2022. The collection will remain on display until the new year, giving everyone the opportunity to grab some light reading material for exam study breaks or quiet moments that emerge during the bustling holiday season. Below is a sampling of some notable titles (descriptions from the library catalogue):
The Prince and the Dressmaker by Jen Wang: "Prince Sebastian hides from his parents his secret life of dressing up in women's clothes as the hottest fashion icon in Paris, the fabulous Lady Crystallia, while his friend Frances the dressmaker strives to keep her friend's secret."
Tacky: love letters to the worst culture we have to offer by Rax King: "TACKY is about the power of pop culture -- like any art, low or high -- to imprint itself on our lives and shape our experiences, no matter one's commitment to "good" taste. These fifteen essays are a nostalgia-soaked antidote to the millennial generation's obsession with irony, putting the aesthetics we've learned to hate to love -- frosted tips and glosses, Sex and the City, The Cheesecake Factory -- into kinder and sharper perspective."
The Secret to Superhuman Strength by Alison Bechdel: "From the author of Fun Home, a profoundly affecting graphic memoir of Bechdel's lifelong love affair with exercise, set against a hilarious chronicle of fitness fads in our times."
Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren: "New York Times and #1 international bestselling author Christina Lauren...tells the story of two people who are definitely not dating, no matter how often they end up in bed together."
Be sure to take some time this holiday season to grab a Gryph Read and chill out anywhere, anytime.


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Sports clubs urged to Get in the Game
Local News 2 July, 2014
Sunshine Coast sport and recreation clubs are urged to apply for funding in the next round of the Queensland Government's highly successful Get Going and Get Playing funding programs. Member for Maroochydore Fiona Simpson said there was more than $24.5 million dollars available for Queensland clubs under this new round of Get in the Game…
Local funding available for Anzac commemoration projects
Member for Maroochydore Fiona Simpson has encouraged Sunshine Coast organisations to apply for second round funding of the Queensland Government's Anzac Community Grants program. Ms Simpson said the $13.5 million program provided funding for local communities to commemorate the sacrifice made by community members during the First World War. "ANZAC day is a special time…
Improved disability access for Nambour
Local News 24 June, 2014
Passengers with mobility issues will find it easier to access public transport following the Queensland Government's recent installation of new disabled parking bays at Nambour train station. Transport and Main Roads Minister Scott Emerson said better access for passengers with a disability delivered on the Government's election promise to revitalise frontline services. "We have listened…
Boost for flood defences on the Sunshine Coast
Stormwater and drainage networks in three flood-prone areas of the Sunshine Coast will be bolstered through the Newman and Abbot Governments' Natural Disaster Resilience Program to protect Queensland communities. Community Recovery and Resilience Minister David Crisafulli said the works in Alexandra Headland and Yandina would improve stormwater drainage and prevent more than 200 homes and…
Strong reforms ensure a Safe Night Out on the Sunshine Coast
Local News 6 June, 2014
Sunshine Coast families will be able to enjoy a safe night out following the Government's introduction of a comprehensive package of reforms designed to end alcohol and drug-related violence. Member for Maroochydore Fiona Simpson said the Government was delivering on its strong plan to end senseless deaths and violence and make Queensland the safest place…
Strong Plan delivers brighter future for Sunshine Coast region
The 2014-15 State Budget continues to deliver a strong plan for a brighter future for all of Queensland, including the Sunshine Coast region. Treasurer Tim Nicholls said the budget outlined the Government's plan to secure Queensland's finances by making the strongest and smartest choice to reduce debt. "It carefully balances increases in education, health and…
Bruce Highway budget funding win for the Sunshine Coast
I am pleased to see further funding announced for the Bruce Highway upgrades between Caboolture and the Sunshine Motorway interchange. This will include 'six laning' works and two new interchanges from Caloundra Road to the Sunshine Motorway and interchange upgrades between Caboolture and Caloundra.– $24.5 million to commence Stage 1 of a two-stage $1.134 billion,…
$2.2million budget win for new Coolum Police Station
Member for Maroochydore Fiona Simpson was delighted with today's budget announcement of funding to relocate Coolum Police Station to South Coolum Road adjacent to the Queensland Ambulance Service. Ms Simpson has campaigned for a permanent home for Coolum's Police Station to replace the temporary site which has been leased since 2005. In 2012 the Queensland…
Good news for Mooloolaba boaties
Mooloolaba boaties are now benefiting better access to the harbour thanks to the nearly $1 million worth of works to upgrade the two public boat ramps. Member for Maroochydore Fiona Simpson said the upgrade was another great example of the Queensland Government delivering on its election commitment to provide better marine infrastructure. "I'm pleased to…
Fiona Simpson congratulates Sunshine Coast Youth Parliament Participants
Local News 29 May, 2014
The Speaker of the Queensland Parliament, Fiona Simpson, officially opened proceedings of the Sunshine Coast Youth Parliament this morning and then chaired its first and closing sessions. Ms Simpson congratulated all of the schools who participated in the Sunshine Coast Youth Parliament, saying that this significant event provided their students with a valuable experience…


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 Učitelství anglického jazyka a literatury
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BuckettLaw successfully brought a claim for an employee who had been unjustifiably suspended and dismissed from her employment. The employee was awarded compensation for the hurt and humiliation caused, reimbursement of lost wages and a contribution to legal costs.
BuckettLaw acted for an employee who had been unjustifiably dismissed by way of redundancy. The Employment Relations Authority determined the dismissal was procedurally unjustified as the employer failed to advise it was considering making the employee's position redundant or provide any information as to how it formed that view. The employee was awarded compensation for the hurt and humiliation of a dismissal, reimbursement of lost wages and a contribution to her legal costs.
BuckettLaw acted for a doctor who had received an unjustified warning at work. BuckettLaw challenged the warning in the Employment Relations Authority and the warning was removed from the record and the doctor received compensation for hurt and humiliation and a substantial contribution to her legal costs. The employer then appealed the quantum of the award of legal costs, which we successfully defended and received an addition legal costs award for.
BuckettLaw acted for a Chief Pilot who had been unjustifiably dismissed from his employment. The Employment Relations Authority found the employer had unjustifiably dismissed the employee, in the process breaching its good faith obligations and the principles of natural justice. The employee was compensation for the hurt and humiliation suffered, reimbursement of lost wages and a contribution to his legal costs.
BuckettLaw acted for a Principal Corrections Officer where it was determined he was unjustifiably dismissed from his employment. The Employment Relations Authority ordered the employee be reinstated to his position and that he receive compensation for hurt and humiliation, reimbursement of lost wages and a contribution to his legal costs.


This time of year often plays havoc with my creative process, which is a roundabout way of saying that the cold and the gray days seem to make it a lot harder for me to come up with fresh and new designs. Is it the same way for you?
That said, I have new set of free tags for you today.
There is a whole set of these fun number tags, from 0 to 9, for you. Click on the link you'll find on the right sidebar to download them, then click on the file name, and the download button, then save to your computer. There are actually two sheets, and they include some blank tags for you to make your own labels, or to use for whatever you need. That's what happens when all ten tags won't fit on one sheet! I hope you'll enjoy these, I can think of lots of uses, including table numbers, tags for organizing storage, and on and on.
I hope you'll enjoy using these, and send some sunny days this way if you can.
Happy January, from the Dog and me.
Thanks Jan these are really cool. How nice of you to offer them to us.
Happy January sweetie! These tags are beautiful - thanks for creating and sharing.
Thanks for your kind comments about the tags. The free tags do change with the seasons, which is why the Easter Tags are the ones available now. The Number Tags were offered during January and February.
As I mentioned in my comment above, the free download changes several times a year, so come back occasionally for new downloads.
Hi there. These tags are JUST what I've been looking for to put on my storage bins. could you please send a copy to me? I know you said they change all the time, but I was just on Pinterest and it linked me here, however I was saddened I could not get this printable :( There are not any printables available now by the looks of it? Would totally love a copy of these. Thanks so much!
I have had no luck printing the tags even after downloading. But they all are lovely.


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Employment relationships: When two's company and three's a crowd
By Jack de Flamingh and Chris Bell - Sep 01, 2020 8:35 am AEST
Three recent judgments of the Full Federal Court of Australia highlight the limitations of the employee / independent contractor dichotomy.
While the traditional approach is strained, the Full Federal Court has not departed from the established multifactorial assessment.
The judgments reflect the 'impressionistic' test that must be applied, of which the terms of the contract are a mere part.
For years, courts have been called upon to assess whether an individual worker is, at law, truly an employee or an independent contractor. This dichotomy has evolved in case law with disparate facts and outcomes, and has traditionally been applied to dual party arrangements. The common law, adaptable as it may be, is struggling to keep up with recent developments in the labour market, including the increasingly common trilateral or multilateral arrangements.
In a trilogy of decisions delivered within two days – as enjoyable a read as the Lord of the Rings trilogy – the Full Federal Court dealt with the vexed issue of whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor.
In each judgment, the Full Federal Court affirmed that it will look at the substance over the form of the relationship. The terms of a contract, though relevant, will give way to the practical reality and true nature of the relationship. The 'totality of the relationship' must be considered. The Full Court also confirmed that the generally accepted, albeit not instructive, 'multifactorial approach' was the correct approach to determining the binary question asked as to whether an individual was an employee or an independent contractor.
The multifactorial approach
The 'multifactorial approach' defies precise definition. It is variously linked to legal 'principles' not often taught in Law School, such as 'the elephant test' (too difficult to define but easy to recognise when you see it) or the 'smell test'. In Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union v Personnel Contracting Pty Ltd [2020] FCAFC 122 ('Personnel Contracting') the Full Court described the task of applying the test as an 'intuitive appreciation and assessment of the whole' (at [20]). Consequently, the approach is recognised as 'impressionistic and amorphous' that is 'susceptible to manipulation and its application is inevitably productive of inconsistency' (at [76]).
Such comments add weight to the academic speculation that the common law is ill equipped to adapt to new and evolving work arrangements, as do the open and engaging judgments of the Full Court. In Personnel Contracting, the Full Court considered itself bound by earlier authorities, but outlined a compelling case as to why the facts of the case should lead to a different outcome.
In the context of the trilateral labour engagement that was described by the Court as entrenched into modern industrial relations and employment, the Court felt compelled to answer a binary question that was 'too deeply rooted to be pulled out' (at [9]), namely: Was the worker an employee or independent contractor?
CFMMEU v Personnel Contracting Pty Ltd [2020] FCAFC 122
Personnel Contracting involved the following 'actors':
Personnel Contracting Pty Ltd ('Personnel'), a labour hire provider in Western Australia;
Hanssen Pty Ltd ('Hanssen'), a building company that engaged Personnel Contracting to provide labour for building projects in Western Australia; and
Mr McCourt, a 22-year-old backpacker on a working holiday visa, who entered the picture looking for work as a labourer to earn some money while in Australia.
Mr McCourt did not have any particular skills or experience in the construction industry. He approached Personnel seeking work as a labourer so as to earn money to sustain him while visiting. He was not an entrepreneur or artisan and did not run a business, nor was he attempting to commence a business. McCourt signed the documentation provided to him that enabled him to work. That documentation described him as an independent contractor. Mr McCourt was told to attend Hanssen's site and he worked under the direction, supervision and control of Hanssen performing general duties as a labourer.
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Ludford: Belgrade Pride ban harms Serbia's EU bid
Liberal Democrat European justice & human rights spokeswoman and London MEP Sarah Ludford has condemned the banning of Belgrade Pride for the second year running. Serbia's Interior Ministry announced today that they would ban this year's Pride, claiming concerns over public safety following threats of violence and intimidation from some groups. The move has sparked condemnation from UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay who has urged Serbia to facilitate the rescheduling of Pride rather than preventing its members from exercising their fundamental freedoms.
Sarah Ludford MEP commented:
"As Vice President of LGBT+ Liberal Democrats and a strong supporter of equal gay rights, I'm extremely disappointed by the totally unwarranted cancellation of Belgrade Pride. Yet again the voice of hatred and discrimination has won out over those wishing to exercise their European right to freedom of expression.
"The Serbian authorities should not cave in to extremist homophobic bullies. On the contrary, they have a duty to ensure that Belgrade Pride goes ahead and that participants are protected from violence or harassment.
"Brussels, and especially MEPs, are watching this closely. Serbia's EU accession process will get seriously derailed unless real progress on equality and human rights is visibly achieved. Today is not a good one in that respect."


We are not lacking for information now; we are hurting for motivation and heart-changing cultivation to employ God's plan for permanent weight control. This is the book to keep by your bedside for morning motivation, to keep on your desk at work for heart-grabbing temptations, to keep in the kitchen to convict you into a wholehearted response to the heavenly Father, and to leave by the nighttime reading chair for tearful conviction. It is full of Scripture that will soften your heart, make you satisfied with less, and therefore bring you to permanent weight control.


It seems like all's not well in the love story of Jamie Hince and his supermodel wide Kate Moss. The Kills guitarist was recently spotted without his wedding ring whereas his wife seems to have stepped out with a new love interest. It was reported earlier that the couple went onto their own separate ways about three months ago but Jamie still kept wearing his wedding ring.
But for the first time now, the guitarist was spotted without it in New York after he allegedly moved out of the couple's marital house. Model Kate Moss too has been pictured without her wedding ring a lot of times as it seems like she is moving on after her split from husband.
Infact, Kate Moss has been growing close to a 28 year old society photographer Count Nikolai von Bismarck. Her new love interest has been captured by the camera leaving her New London home on a number of occasions and it is said that he virtually lives there. A few photographs also clearly suggest that the new couple were roaming in the capital after coming back from a secret week long vacation in Mustique.
Kate Moss, 41 and Jamie Hince 46 don't seem to have had an amicable split since while separating their possessions, they have had a lot of bickering and arguments. They also fought over a skeleton sculpture. Kate has owned the artwork before their wedding but the Daily Star claims he began to love it when they lived together. The newspapers report that he gave it an MOT when it got a little damaged and now wants to own it legally. Currently, the structure stands in Kate's North London home and the couple is sorting out their various differences including this one.
The couple tied the knot in 2011 and has reportedly told their friends that they are not able to solve the problems that have come up in their relationship. They are waiting to get divorced and move on with their lives. A source said, "They are properly over as a married couple. It's gone past the point of no return". Neither of them is in no hurry as such for the divorce proceedings but they both suspect that there won't be any reconciliation. Let's wait and watch where this goes.


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Humour Featured
Editorials Featured
For three nights, in commemoration of Yom HaShoah on 27 January, Murtadd to Human is publishing a series of articles that draws attention to the rising anti-Semitism around the world. Our second article is my critique of Dion J. Pierre's report on anti-Semitism in Palestinian textbooks.
Misguiding the Perplexed - Part 2
Had Salman Rushdie been Jewish, we would have welcomed him as an absolutely standard member of the Jewish community. It didn't even register on the Richter scale in terms of Jewish challenge
Propaganda Featured
Rabbi Pinchas Taylor deliberately constructs a wall of vague generalisations and misleading obfuscations behind which to hide the horrors of Islam, thereby offering Islam a place from which to ambush his sedated congregation.
Jihad Featured
Every agora wasted on a terrorist could ease life for a citizen
The only people who will be upset at this terrorist's self-rejected citizenship being revoked are the Jews whose co-existence fantasies are fed by such "citizens of Israel." Other citizens of Israel, such as those in Judea and Samaria struggling to find a house, might feel otherwise.
Israel Featured
Israel Diaries #5
Yes, you see it, too: it's a menorah! This hit me before I saw it referred to as such elsewhere. You can imagine where my head went with this: Hanukkah > Festival of Lights > Diwali > Hinduism > Saraswati > Knowledge of the self > reflexive/reciprocal > Hitpa'el!
2022: The year the English language reclaimed "refugee"
The "refugee" mania that so gripped Europe since 2015, when organised international mass crime became a virtue to so many in the West, while the safeguarding of citizens and the protection of their society was deprecated, is no longer quite the madness that it was.
Finally, Israel gets an Israeli government
"Some of these people sitting here see the Temple Mount as the major issue of Israel. What will happen if they decide to go and visit the Temple mount?"
Islam Featured
Just one more year and one more science instrument that Muslims missed out on. Why? Because it is offensive to follow the ways of the kufaar, and to like what the kufaar like, and value what the kufaar value. Even Christmas is haram. That's right. Merry Christmas, my former fellow Muslims.
Hanukkah Sameach
Hanukkah Sameach to all my Jewish and Israeli friends, colleagues and readers!
Karl Popper Featured
Tolerating Popper
Popper would find it very hard to believe that something so much worse than Nazism had been a plague upon the earth for more than a thousand years, and that, after the horrors against which he warned, we hold it as a virtue to tolerate Islam and to go easy on Muslims.
Shireen Abu Akleh and Grant Wahl: Another lesson that will not be learnt
Israel has nothing to do with it. Muslims hate you because their religion obliges them to hate you. It is just a matter of the extent to which they may wish to defy, or can get away with defying, that obligation.
Iran Featured
"ENOUGH!"
"Israel has been saying that for years and so many distinguished speakers have said clearly from this stage, each in their own words, enough."
Ukraine Featured
Onward pregnant soldiers
If the IDF is deterred from bombing terrorists for fear of killing civilians, the terrorists are protected and they all declare victory. If the IDF bombs the terrorists, then "Women and children get caught up in the violence," and the dead terrorists and civilians go straight to Heaven as "martyrs."
Christopher Hitchens's "Axis of Evil" speech, Part 2: Iran
The Iranian mullahs lost so many young people in the suicide waves that they sent against Iraq, the sending of gangs of school children and teenagers to clear minefields on the Iraqi border. There's not enough room in large parts of Iran to bury the number of people they killed.
Netanyahu gives substance to "Never again," again.
The enemy is not only at the gates. It is in the hearts of Jews and it is in the Knesset. Thankfully, Benjamin Netanyahu knows this, and he is not a timid man. Those who will join him in his new government are not timid either. There is hope.
Msreading Iran
"Women Life Freedom" is not a feminist slogan and this is not a "women's revolution." The events unfolding in major parts of the Muslim world mean that after almost 200 years, the 1848 revolutions finally resume: the autonomous individual is far from dead, with a tip of the hat to George Orwell.
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ITW manager is responsible for the functioning of the Workshop through all of its stages. Manager of the previous, 2011, as well as the forthcoming, 2012 ITW edition is Staša Čelan.
Staša Čelan - born in Split in 1969. After completing primary and secondary school in Split, he came to Zagreb to study film and TV editing at the Academy of Dramatic Art. To this date, he has edited 6 feature films ("Puna kuća", "Da mi je biti morski pas", "Ante se vraća kući", "04", "Najveća pogreška Alberta Einsteina", "Zagorka"), full-length documentaries ("O kravama i ljudima", "Život na svježem zraku", "Sevdah"), fiction series ("Vjerujem u anđele") and dozens of short documentaries and experimental films. Along with the film-making industry, he is actively working on TV projects, directing and editing numerous music videos, commercials, TV shows ("Po Ure Torture", "Ništa osobno"…). In 2000, he has won a special award for directing "Milenij" at Požega One Minute Film Festival. At one point, he wrote film reviews for "Hrvatski filmski ljetopis" and "Hrvatski vijenac".
For 15 years he has been active in the organization of Cinema club Zagreb as a film workshop lecturer and a mentor to young filmmakers. He has held film workshops throughout Croatia, for the most part organized by the Croatian Film Club's Association, Croatian Education and Teacher Training Agency, Dubrava Cultural Centre and, before mentioned, Cinema club Zagreb. Since his beginnings to this day, Staša has held over a hundred film workshops… Alongside Irena Marković, he is the co-founder of a new film production company "Focusmedia" d.o.o., focused primarily on independent film production.
In 2010 Staša has become actively involved in the organization of the International Talent film Workshop and became the project manager.
Previous ITW managers: Nebojša Slijepčević (2008), Tina Hajon (2009, 2010)
There are two supervisors- one for each group. They supervise and guide their groups through all the stages of filmmaking.
Here are the supervisors of this year's edition of ITW.
Danilo Šerbedžija – born in 1971 in Zagreb. After high school he studied Philosophy and classical Greek language in Zagreb. From 1999 – 2002 he attended the Postgraduate studies at Ohio University, School of Film (prof. Rajko Grlić), USA, where he achieved his master's degree with short feature film "Mussels in Wine". With this Film he won the award for the best short film at "12th Days of Croatian film" festival in 2003. Since 2000 up to date, he directed 3 short feature films, 2 documentaries, TV series "Crazy House" and many commercials and music videos… He's a proud owner of 4 film awards for his work, the most significant being the audience's award for best film at Croatian National Film Festival "Pula 2010". He won that award for his first full feature film "72 days", one of the most acclaimed recent Croatian films which was selected to represent Croatian cinematography at this year's Academy Awards in the best foreign film category. Danilo is known as one of the rising stars of Croatian cinematography.
Silvestar Kolbas – Croatian photographer, cinematographer and film director, born in Petrovci near Vukovar in 1956, and raised in Vinkovci. At first he worked as freelance photographer, and from 1985 to 1996 he worked at Croatian television as cameraman and cinematographer. He graduated cinematography at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb in 1982. Since 1994 he teaches cinematography at the same school as a professor. He continously works as photographer and cinematographer. Also, he publishes articles about cinematography in variety of professional journals and teaches cinematography at numerous workshops. He shot a number of feature films, TV-films and directed several documentaries for which he won awards (All abut Eva, The War Reporter…). Recently, he makes documentaries, short and feature films for independent productions, and exhibits photographs.
Previous ITW supervisors: Goran Dević, Francesco Crispino (2009); Branko Ištvančić, Francesco Crispino (2010); Marina Andree Škop, Marko Škop (2011)


Powerman Malaysia will return to Putrajaya on Sunday, 4th March 2018 with great expectations. Organised by E-Plus Global Sdn Bhd, over 3,000 local and foreign participants including top global athletes, multi-sport elites and enthusiasts are expected to take part in the run-bike- run race.
Ring up your friends and get them in, this is a race for all levels including beginners. Interested participants can register at Powermanmalaysia.com.
Watch the highlights from the 2017 Powerman Asia Duathlon Championships courtesy of Powerman Malaysia.


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Q:  how to disable web security Is there any way to modify in webkit gtk to disable web security? ( is the setting in WebKitWebSettings? or where?)
My purpose is to allow any cross domain request from app of my browser. I've already googled for a while . It seems a bug in webkit?
If it's not solved yet, why can I use google-chrome with --disable-web-security in cmd-line? Chrome is also webkit-based browser...
Any suggestion is welcome!!! thanks!

A: After comparing webkit and gtk's source code, I found web security enable parameter is actually set in webcore ,but no responding function in gtk websetting. The only way to solve this issue is to modify gtk's source code and re-compile it.

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People > Pioneers > Heinrich and Katharina Koch
Heinrich and Katharina Koch
Johann Heinrich Koch was born in Kolb, Russia on March 6, 1856, the son of Valentine Koch (born 1813) and Magdalena Rueck (born 1815). Heinrich was confirmed in the colony of Frank.
Facing military conscription, Johann Heinrich (also John Henry and Henry) decided to leave Russia in the Fall of 1876, just prior to his 21st birthday. Along with three other men, Henry Thiel, Henry Achziger and Jacob Meyer, the four ment traveled by train to Germany where they board the steamship Frisia. They arrived at Castle Garden, New York on November 22, 1876.
The group of four first settled in Lincoln, Nebraska. It is likely that Heinrich (now Henry) went to Culbertson, Nebraska where other Volga Germans were settling.
Henry's parents arrived in the United States in May 1878 aboard the steamship Wieland. By 1879, they had also settled on a homestead near Culbertson.
Henry met Katharina (Katherine) Hohnstein in Culbertson. Katherine was born on December 18, 1860 in Norka, Russia, the daughter of Ludwig Hohnstein and Katharina Aschenbrenner. Her family arrived in America on the steamship Oder on July 8, 1876. Henry and Katherine married at Harvard, Nebraska on October 23, 1880.
Henry Koch was known in Ritzville as "Portland Koch". Courtesy of Harland Eastwood.
Katharina Koch (née Hohnstein). Courtesy of Harland Eastwood.
Henry filed for a homestead claim in the Culbertson percent on March 1, 1881. A daughter, Alice, was born later that year. The family stayed on the farm until 1888. Three children were born during that time, but the first two, Henry and John, did not survive. Jacob, who was born on March 23, 1887 lived to adulthood.
The family decided to move to Portland in 1887 after Jacob's birth. They were fully aware of other Volga German families that had already settled there. Another son, Benjamin, was born in Portland in July 1894.
Henry's brother, Fred, died in Culbertson and left two orphaned boys, Fred Jr, and John Peter. Henry traveled to Nebraska to bring the boys to Portland where they would live with his family.
In 1891 or 1892, the entire Koch family took a train to Ritzville, Washington to work the wheat harvest. Harvest jobs were plentiful and the pay was good. After the harvest, Henry, Katherine and Alice returned to Portland, but Fred Jr. and John Peter stayed in Ritzville.
John Peter Koch, the nephew of Henry Koch. Courtesy of Harland Eastwood.
Twins, Matilda and Benjamin, were born on July 10, 1893.
Photograph of Matilda Koch (Mrs. Reuben Thiel) courtesy of Harland Eastwood.
Alice and Jacob Koch circa 1892 in Portland, Oregon. Photograph courtesy of Harland Eastwood.
Alice Koch (Mrs. Henry Kiehn). Photograph courtesy of Harland Eastwood.
In 1910, the family was living at 434 E Russell St. and Henry was working as a day laborer.
Henry and family moved to Ritzville in 1907. Alice married Henry Kiehn and Jacob married Euoria Lutz. Matilda married Ruben Thiel in 1914. Benjamin married Florence Lawrence of Lind, Washington.
Katherine died in Ritzville in 1916. Henry remarried the widow Katharina Nagel the following year and they moved back to Portland. Katharina died in 1928 and Henry married again in 1930. His third wife was Eva Katherine Legler. This marriage was short-lived as Henry died on November 30, 1930 of injuries incurred when he was hit by a car on the streets of Portland. Pastor Heinrich Hagelganz led the funeral service at the Second German Congregational Church.
Eastwood, Harland. The Story of Henry Koch of Kolb, Russia.
Eastwood, Harland. Herr Kanzler's Kinder. Harland Eastwood Publishing, 2006. Page 38.
"Koch Relates Varied Experiences from Factory to Ritzville Court". The Journal Times. Ritzville, WA. 9 July 1959.
Last updated June 15, 2020.